Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-09
PifiL PANIC.
A Panic on q New YOrk
Elevated Road Ends in
the Loss of Life.
A Curious Package Addressed
to the Prince Of Wales,
Mexicans Charged With Hav-
ing Committed a Hor-
rible Crime.
End of the Pool Beer FiKht-Exeltsd
Over q Bank closure-MsxleO's Tel
egrapbie Communication -AP-
pointed to 0fises-Seere-
tary Manning and Treas
urer Jordan win
Go TO Europe.
A Flre. Bioekade and PaAIe IN Nsw
Fork.

A RlFe. blockade and Panic IN Ne'
Tork.
NEw YoRx, March 6.-The large tailc
establishment OF Nicol. the TsilOr, O
Broadway, vas destroyed by IRE hi
morning. TIE IRE caused q blockad
on the Third Avenue ElsvevAtsd road
which extended far up above ltth stresl
| The conductor of the train which va
blocked q few hundred feet frsm th
I4th street station notified bis passeR
gers that they could leave the train an
walk over . narrsW plank along the sid
of the track and thus make their way 3
the station. A number ayailed them
selves OF the dangerous privilege and a
awful accident vas the result. Ia SON,
manner . panic was started on the mar
roW walk far above the street and
number of persons were hanR 10 th
pavement below. IL Is stated that sevel
we're killed and many wsrs injured
The official repeFt Of the aeclden
shows that three persons were killes
and two others badly injured. Il so
pears that q number Of passengers lef
one Sf the trains at 17th street ans
started to walk along the narrow foo
plank on the side Of the track 10 tbl
station ~ 18th street. While doing q
the blockade vas released and the train
began to start and shook the pathway
TO such an extent that a number Of pas
sengers we're thrown down 30 the street
below with the result as stated.
The narrow platform from which the
people fell was about two and Oue-hall
feet in width. Il is used bv traokmen
when on duty, and above 18th street Il
not provided with hand rails. When
the passengers left the blocked cars and
took to the platform she gatemen OF
the train offered no objection as they
ought to have done. A long liRe Of men
was picking its way slowly when sud
denly she train ahead started ap and
beQah TO move. The next one followed
suit and q successive series Of jerks
vent along the line up 20 the last train.
Eaeh shook the track with a convulsive
movement that frightened those in
front and made them harry ahead
rapidly to reach the station safely.
Those behind saw they we're scared and
get nervous in turn. Some we're look
ing anxiously round for support and
l0W 18th street, in sight OF the platform,
buried forward to catch the gate OF the
nearest car when the train Of which IL
vas q part suddenly started ahead aud
nearly shook the foremost one of his
feet. Shrinking back from IN front Of
the moving wheels be crowded AGAINST
the men behind him on the very edge Of
the narrow plank walk. From below,
Vhere the crowd was Watching the pro-
gEess Of the promenaders In mid air, a
shout Of warning arose, bat too late.
The man seized wildly at his neiRbbor 10
terror OF his life. The latter drew bach
bat the crowd behind was pressing on.
The train was moving right on. Those
further behind saw a mOmentary halt OF
the crowd in front, and then half a doz
en- we're seen falling over the edge into
the street below, from which arose q
frightened shrek OF despair. After the
men struck the pavement and lay man
gled and bleeding. there followed q Wild
rush in the street and a wilder and more
desperate one above in the air. The
veniuresome pedestrians caught At thf
gates OF the train as it passed and chung
With the grip OF despair. II pulled up
and stopped almost Immediately. The
frightened and breathless men were
pulled In and room was made for the
others. 10 two minutes the plank walk
was clear. Down below Ia the street a
scene Of horror was in progress The
msn bad fallen in the middle OF the
street 10 q heap. They Law. some mo
tionless, some moaning family, and ons
shrieking wildly in pain and terror. T0s
crowd OF thousands Who bad watched
the blockade from belov surgsd around
and closed In upon the scene.
Ten had fallen from the track, al
told; that is, ten we're found dead or In
iured. II any escaped unhuFt they were
ant counted. Phe three az the bottom
OF the heap we're dead. They bad fall.
en- head fret and smashed 10 their sku
A wagon was called and they we're takeu
70 the msrRue. Several OF them ver'
more or less terribly injured and SONS
Of them will die.
CuFious Package IN the Dead Letter
9mce.
WAsHrNaroN, March "a paokaR,
has been delivered at she Dead Lettel
Once which was mailed In Boston and
was addressed to 'The Prince Of Wales
London, EnRiand." II was held foi
postage. When opened Il was found e
santain q brass hgure Of Christ, evi
IDENTIFY detached from 6 small eFuoihx
and q small glass t1be containing I
wbite liquid and having two wires run
ning through she tube and prnieotinl
from both ends. The papsL enclosed
contained an incoheFent sentence. The
Dead Letter Officials we're apprehensiv,
that the glass tube miRht be an in'ernAl
machine, a. u vas carefully packed ~
cotton and they we're trying 10 fnc
some one TO test the quality Of ths
liquid.
Mexioans Supposed 20 Have Csmmii
ted the Crime.
ALBUqUKRQUK. n. n, March 8 IA
special 20 the Democrat says q horribls
double murder occurred at Laekey'.
sheep ranch. near here, one day last
week. On Friday q party riding past
the ranch discovered a cabin burned
and the body Of frssier, Lakey's part
ner, lying 3 short disianos away viii
bis back perforated With bullets a.
though shot while running away. Lsok
ey wss missing aud on searching tbs ru-
ins Of ths cabin his eharFed remain,
were found among them. On FddaJ
afternoon several shots we're heard Al
thOugh fred ia that vicinity. and fOul
MexieaLs Ieft q short time afterwards
Il is supposed that they committed thl
crime for The money Laeksy vas kn0wE
10 have.
Fad sF the Peel Reer Fight.
NKw YoAK, March e.--At the Brsserl
Exchange Secretary ssifsrt said las
night that the Rstaiie1s' COMMITTEES ani
toe Committos oi tae Brewers had com
20 al snicshis understanding and thal
ths pool beer hght wss over.
Exeifed over = Bank Closare.
81. JOHzs IN. b., MsEeh s.--Thsrs b
great excitement Ia financial add cen
/ nersiN circles over tbe suspension o
tbs Martins Bank. whieh eOsed b.
d0oFs todsy. No particulars can be %
tanned at present. Everybody seems q
BE taken By surprise.
Mexaes's TeIexraphIe csmmaBieafIoH
WASHIS0r0z, March s-Henry (
Hall, United states Miaistef 70 Ceairr
Amerisa. tnfosLas the Secretary of stat
that on February sth direos lelegFaphi